Word: afterward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...once ordered to stock Crooner Tommy Leonetti's newest record. Protested Sipiora: "It isn't good enough to get on the boxes." As his caller talked, he fingered and tossed "what we felt was a bullet," and said: "These things can be dangerous. They penetrate flesh." Soon afterward, said Distributor Sipiora, he began getting calls for the Leonetti record from operators who had heard the same sales pitch...
Castro went to speak to a meeting of some 2,000 restaurant, hotel, nightclub and casino workers, and promised that gambling would be resumed this week. Afterward, he exploded to a friend: "This nonsense cannot go on. This is the limit. Instead of solving problems, the government is creating them daily...
...meek. Gone was the suntan he got last month from a gunboat Caribbean cruise that the government gave him after he foolishly tried a coup. Once when the presiding officer demanded that the former strongman rise when spoken to, he protested that he deserved "reverence" as an ex-President. Afterward he was humble. Respectfully, he addressed his accusers as "Honorable Senators"; the senators referred to him simply as "the accused...
...ideal for a jockey. Ted got a job with the Whitneys' Greentree Stable as a stableboy, watered horses and broke yearlings while he learned about racing. On May 18, 1938, at Beulah Park in Ohio, he rode his first winner, Musical Jack. Said Ted afterward: "Musical Jack did all his own winning. I was just along for the ride. I had him in every pocket but my own, and he still came on to win. That horse looked at me with disgust when I got down after the race...
...Smith in 1879-80 as a sophomore (she had studied previously at Wellesley), then dropped out. Smith's records show that she made "very high" marks in history and natural history, did satisfactorily in her other subjects. But for some reason she left school after a year. Shortly afterward, she is known to have taught music in Cape Town, South Africa. By the turn of the century she was back in Whitinsville, giving piano lessons. In 1906 she sold the house her parents had left her for $15,000, because she needed money. By 1913 she had taken rooms...